Quotes About Proverbs

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

Proverbs 18:2 speaks to this issue with penetrating insight: "A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.

Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far from him" (Proverbs 22:15).

Proverbs 12:15–16 says: "The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice. A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

I do admit to mocking atheists, because mockery is a legitimate form of debate according to my rule Book. God Himself mocks evil men who refuse His moral government (see Proverbs 1:26-27).

When words are many, sin is not absent, / but he who holds his tongue is wise (Proverbs 10:19).

For it is written that if the wise man appears always stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

For it is written that 'if the wise man always appears stupid, his failures do not disappoint, and his success gives pleasant surprise.

Wisdom ruleth in counsel -- so do riches.

Big people monopolize the listening. Small people monopolize the talking. Proverbs 29:20 "Seest thou a man that has hasty in his words? There is more hope of a fool than him".

Diseases come a horsebacke, and returne on foot.

Envy thou not the oppressor, And choose none of his ways. —Proverbs 3:31

Time-honoured insights are often trivialised as cliches.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

Epigrams delight us into wisdom.

Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.

The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him. Proverbs 23:24

People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.

Proverbs 28:26Those who trust in their own reasoning are fools, but those who walk in Wisdom will be kept safe.